courageous curriculum

Courageous Curriculum KS1: Year A

Autumn Term: Create

Orchestra

Courageous Curriculum Overview of 2 7 KS1 Year A

DT

Designo Design purposeful, functional, appealing products for themselves

and other users based on design criteria.o Generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through

talking, drawing, templates, mock-ups and, where appropriate, information and communication technology.

Makeo Select from and use a range of tools and equipment to perform

practical tasks [for example, cutting, shaping, joining and finishing].

o Select from and use a wide range of materials and components, including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their characteristics.

Evaluateo Explore and evaluate a range of existing products.o Evaluate their ideas and products against design criteria.

Technical Knowledgeo Build structures, exploring how they can be made stronger, stiffer

and more stable

Art and Design

o Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products

o Use sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination

Music

o Play tuned and untuned instruments musicallyo Listen with concentration and understanding to a range of

high-quality live and recorded music.o Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using

the inter-related dimensions of music


Notes:

Science

Plantso Observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature

plantso Find out and describe how plants need water, light and a suitable

temperature to grow and stay healthy

PLUS WORKING SCIENTIFICALLY (see end of document)

Computing

o Understand what algorithms are; how they are implemented as programs on digital devices; and that programs execute by following precise and unambiguous instructions

o Create and debug simple programso Use logical reasoning to predict the behaviour of simple

programso Use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal

information private; identify where to go for help and support when they have concerns about content or contact on the internet or other online technologies.

RE, PSHE and PE

Objectives for these subjects are in separate documents

Spring Term: Discover

Important People


DT

Cooking and Nutritiono Use the basic principles of a healthy and varied diet

to prepare dishes.o Understand where the food comes from

Science

Animals, including humanso Notice that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into

adultso Find out about and describe the basic needs of animals, including

humans, for survival (water, food and air)o Describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right

amounts of different types of food, and hygiene

Living things and their habitatso Identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited

and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other

o Identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including microhabitats

o Describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food


History

o Lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements. Some should be used to compare aspects of life in different periods

Computing

o Recognise common uses of information technology beyond school

o Use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal information private; identify where to go for help and support when they have concerns about content or contact on the internet or other online technologies.

RE, PSHE and PE


Summer Term: Explore

Home and Away


Geography

Location Knowledgeo Name and locate the world’s seven continents and five oceanso Name, locate and identify characteristics of the four countries and capital cities

of the United Kingdom and its surrounding seas

Human and Physicalo Identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the United Kingdom and the

location of hot and cold areas of the world in relation to the Equator and the North and South Poles

o Use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to: Key physical features, including: beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill, mountain, sea, ocean, river, soil, valley, vegetation, season and weather

o Key human features, including: city, town, village, factory, farm, house, office, port, harbour and shop

Geographical skills and fieldworko Use aerial photographs and plan perspectives to recognise landmarks and

basic human and physical features; devise a simple map; and use and construct basic symbols in a key

o Use simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the geography of their school and its grounds and the key human and physical features of its surrounding environment

Science

Everyday materialso Identify and compare the suitability of a

variety of everyday materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard for particular uses

o Find out how the shapes of solid objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching



Art and Design

o Use drawing and painting to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination

o Develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, texture, line, shape, form and space

o Know about the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines, and making links to their own work

DTTechnical Knowledge

o Build structures, exploring how they can be made stronger, stiffer and more stable

Computing


RE, PSHE and PE


Notes:


Science- working scientifically

Year 1 and 2• asking simple questions and recognising that they can be answered in different ways • observing closely, using simple equipment performing simple tests• identifying and classifying using their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions• gathering and recording data to help in answering questions.

Courageous Curriculum Overview of 1 8 KS1 Year B

Courageous Curriculum KS1: Year B


Autumn Term: Create

Nature, plants and growing

DT





practical tasks [for example, cutting, shaping, joining and finishing].o Select from and use a wide range of materials and components,

including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their characteristics.


Cooking and Nutritiono Use the basic principles of a healthy and varied diet to prepare

dishes.o Understand where the food comes from

Art and Design

o Develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space

SciencePlants

o Identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees.

o Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees.

Seasonal Changeso Observe changes across the four seasons o Observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and how

day length varies



Music

o Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes.

NOTES: apple picking and cooking / blackberry picking and cooking

3D felt fruit and vegfallen leaf art

Computing

o Recognise common uses of information technology beyond school o Use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal information

private; identify where to go for help and support when they have concerns about content or contact on the internet or other online technologies.

RE, PSHE and PE


Geography

o Use simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the geography of their school and its grounds and the key human and physical features of its surrounding environment



King of the castle

DT

Cooking and Nutritiono Use the basic principles of a healthy and varied diet to prepare dishes.o Understand where the food comes from

Technical Knowledgeo Wheels and axles

Science

Animals, including humanso Identify and name a variety of common animals including fish,

amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals (B).o Identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores,

herbivores and omnivores (B).o Describe and compare the structure of a variety of common

animals (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, including pets) (B).

o Identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body and say which part of the body is associated with each sense (B).


History

o Significant historical events, people and places in their own locality


NOTES drawbridge, horse and carts

Computing


RE, PSHE and PE


Art and Design




Seaside and Pirates

Geography

Human and Physicalo Use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to: Key physical features,

including: beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill, mountain, sea, ocean, river, soil, valley, vegetation, season and weather

Geographical skills and fieldworko Use simple compass directions (North, South, East and West) and

locational and directional language [for example, near and far; left and right], to describe the location of features and routes on a map

Science

Everyday materials

o Distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made (B).

o Identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock (B).

o Describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials (B).

o Compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of their simple physical properties


Music

o Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes


NOTES Punch and Judy

Art and Design

o Use drawing and painting to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination



DT

Technical Knowledgeo Levers and sliders

Computing



o Create and debug simple programso Use logical reasoning to predict the behaviour of simple

programs

RE, PSHE and PE


Courageous Curriculum Overview of 1 9 KS1 Year C

Courageous Curriculum KS1: Year C


Autumn Term: Create

Sculpture- the ant to the elephant

Art and Design


o Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination

Music

o Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes

Computing

o Recognise common uses of information technology beyond school



NOTES:

ScienceAnimals including humans

o Identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals

o Identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores

o Describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, including pets)

o Identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body and say which part of the body is associated with each sense


RE, PSHE and PE




Travel and transport

Science

Seasonal changeso Observe changes across the four seasons o Observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and

how day length varies

Everyday materialso Identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday

materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard for particular uses (A).

o Find out how the shapes of solid objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching


History

o Changes within living memory – used, where appropriate, to reveal changes in national life

o Events from beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally

Art and Design



NOTES toy museum

Computing



RE, PSHE and PE


DT





practical tasks [for example, cutting, shaping, joining and finishing].o Select from and use a wide range of materials and components,

including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their characteristics.


Technical knowledgeo Wheels and axles



Around the World

Geography

Place Knowledgeo Understand geographical similarities and differences through studying the human and physical geography of a small area of the United Kingdom,

and of a small area in a contrasting non-European country

Human and Physicalo Identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the United Kingdom and the location of hot and cold areas of the world in relation to the Equator

and the North and South Poleso Use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to Key physical features, including: beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill, mountain, sea, ocean, river, soil,

valley, vegetation, season and weathero

Geographical skills and fieldworko Use world maps, atlases and globes to identify the United Kingdom and its countries, as well as the countries, continents and oceans studied at

this key stageo Use aerial photographs and plan perspectives to recognise landmarks and basic human and physical features; devise a simple map; and use and

construct basic symbols in a keyo Use simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the geography of their school and its grounds and the key human and physical features of its

surrounding environment


Science

Plantso Identify and name a variety of common wild and garden

plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees (B).o Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of

common flowering plants, including trees


Art and Design

o Use sculpture, drawing and painting to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination



DTCooking and Nutrition

oo Use the basic principles of a healthy and varied diet to prepare

dishes.o Understand where the food comes from

Music

o Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes.

o Play tuned and untuned instruments musically.o Listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-

quality live and recorded music.o Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the

inter-related dimensions of music


Computing


o Use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content

RE, PSHE and PE


Notes:

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